Spelling - We will not have a spelling list this week.  Our phonics unit is still working with the glued sounds -ang, -ing, -ong, and -ung.  Our next spelling list will be the week after Thanksgiving break.  

Religion - We continue to work on the virtues and values of humility and gratitude.  We worked more in our Friendzy unit this week - also about gratitude.  Our unit theme is Grow Gratitude.  The Bible story we read this week was Jonah and the Whale. Our Promise Paper was from Mark 12:38-44.  The theme of the passage is that every gift is important.

Math - We have spent a lot of time learning how to tell time.  We are working on telling time to the :00 and the :30.  We worked on finding numbers on a hundreds chart.  The students had to find numbers, find the the numbers before and after a number, and find numbers between numbers.  We worked on coins.  This week we focused on dimes and pennies.  With that, we also talked about place value - tens and ones.  We used base ten blocks and coins to practice.  Our Friday lesson was about symmetry.  We used pattern blocks to make symmetrical creations.  We used a ruler as our line of symmetry.

Writing - We continue to work on our personal narratives.  This week we learned how to break our stories down from the big topic, to a smaller topic, to focusing on the small moment.  Then we learned how to break our small moment down to a beginning, a middle, and an end.  This is challenging for first graders.  They worked really hard!

Reading - We work in our daily 5 centers and reading groups every day.  I am also doing another round of running records and sight word assessments.  

Science - We finished our PLTW unit Light and Sound.  The last task was the problem.  The problem was to build a communication device using light and/or sound. We were able to test the devices and present them to our class.

Social Studies - Before we start our next PLTW unit, we are going to do a short social studies unit on map skills.  Monday, November 11th, was Veteran's Day.  We read a Scholastic News about veterans, learned a little bit about what a veteran is, learned a little bit about national symbols, read some stories about national symbols, listened to some patriotic music, and colored cards for veterans.

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